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Microsoft's Future: as a Games Company
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| That's what makes the current news so important: it's the first time that the
| inner faultlines have spread to the surface. Now, anyone can see that
| Microsoft is in trouble. Not in the sense that the company will go bankrupt
| or disappear: I fully expect Microsoft to be around – and even *thriving* -
| in ten or twenty years' time, just as IBM is thriving today, despite it's
| near-death experience in the 1992, when it lost $5 billion. But in trouble at
| a much more profound, hard-to-fix level.
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| There are even signs of this in the Microsoft announcement, where it
| attributes a decline in client revenue to “a continued shift to lower priced
| netbooks”. Netbooks, of course, were a category that would probably never
| have been explored without the ready availability of GNU/Linux: its zero
| cost, high performance, small footprint and customisability were major
| factors in driving the surprise success of the first Asus machines.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1782&blogid=14
Recent:
Intel boss Otellini warns of first loss in 21 years
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| INTEL'S CEO, Paul Otellini, has fessed up to the possibility the firm may
| report its first loss this quarter after 21 years of profitability.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/551/1050551/intel-boss-otellini-warns-loss-2
Intel's Net Profit Drops 90 Percent
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| Intel's fourth-quarter profit plunged 90 percent from a year earlier, as the
| chip maker battled a worsening economy and recorded a steep loss from
| investments.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/157808/intels_net_profit_drops_90_percent.html?tk=rss_news
1.5-pound mini-laptop boots Linux fast
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| Sony announced a mini-laptop that weighs 1.4 pounds and is just 4.7 inches
| deep. Shipped with Vista and a fast-booting Linux Xross environment,
| the "Vaio P" (VGN-P) includes a 1.33GHz Atom processor, eight-inch, 2GB of
| RAM, GPS, a cellular modem, and 8-inch 1600 x 768 screen.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS1969296587.html?kc=rss
CES photo gallery: Netbooks, netbooks, everywhere netbooks
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| Especially in the remote booths where Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers are
| offering a rainbow of netbooks. Bestlink of Shenzhen City, China, is offering
| these at wholesale prices starting around $140 for Linux systems and $150 for
| those with Windows CE. Systems with Windows XP are wholesaling for around
| $200...
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http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/brierdudley/2009/01/09/ces_photo_gallery_netbooks_net.html
$98 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNote
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| HiVision CO., LTD makes one of the worlds cheapest Linux laptops at $98 using
| a new cheaper chipset, WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, 3 USB ports,
| Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out. Voice-chat, Skype, multi-tabbed
| Firefox browser support, Abiword for word processing.
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http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-laptop-the-hivision-mininote/
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